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Posted July 12, 2013: by Bill Sardi
It is strange that modern medicine has no arterial cleansing regimens beyond that of ineffective statin cholesterol-lowering drugs. Statin drugs only reduce production of cholesterol from the liver, thus reducing circulating levels of cholesterol, not cholesterol plaque itself.
The unnatural and problematic method by which statin drugs lower cholesterol has been graphically portrayed. Cholesterol numbers are essentially worthless in gauging whether a person is at risk for a sudden mortal heart attack.
More troubling is the realization that baby-dose (81 milligram) aspirin tablets with a red heart on the bottle to signify they promote heart health, do not protect against sudden mortal heart attacks. An estimated 40 million Americans take a baby aspirin in an ineffective attempt to reduce their risk of dying suddenly from a fast-forming blood clot in a coronary artery that supplies the heart with oxygenated blood.
The realization that aspirin and statin drugs are ineffective and even problematic prompts a search for other ways to maintain arterial health.
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Posted : by Bill Sardi
1. A paper, written by investigators at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, as published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is a follow-up from a prior study published in 2011 that reached a similar conclusion. So it’s not news. (See No. 4 below) It is a confirming study. It appears to have been times for release to coincide with other negative reports involving dietary supplements.
2. The paper did not factor for other dietary supplements; maybe the non-aggressive cancers were vitamin supplement users. It is well established that omega-3 oils can promote or inhibit cancer based upon a variety of factors not considered in this narrow data analysis. A list of the carcinogenic and anti-carcinogenic properties of omega-3 oils were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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Posted July 11, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Sciatica is reported to affect 13% to 40% of adults over their lifetime. A history of smoking and being overweight is common. It causes pain emanating from the large sciatic nerve that extends from the lower back down the back of each leg. Severity differs, sometimes worsening upon sitting. Surgery does not often produce satisfactory results.
Before you run off to the chiropractor for spinal manipulation (which has not been demonstrated to produce lasting relief), you might want to think of some simple overlooked measures.
The first is to sleep on a hard surface, like the floor, to see if this reduces the burning pain. If so, this may mean you need to throw away the old sagging mattress on your bed and replace it with a firmer one.
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Posted July 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine is right on cue. In the wake of a vaccine advocate peddling a book that offers pseudoscience as evidence against consumption of antioxidant supplements (his false assertions have been roundly rebutted), now an animal researcher claims his lab rats lived shorter lives when their diet was supplemented with antioxidants and humans shouldn’t make the same mistake.
Hate to interrupt their anti-vitamin campaign, but about 7 in 10 Americans take dietary supplements and most daily vitamin regimens include the very same antioxidants used in this animal study (vitamins C and E), yet no decline in life expectancy has been noted yet (see chart from Centers for Disease Control below).
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Posted July 9, 2013: by Bill Sardi
In the British newspaper The Telegraph, a writer there promotes legislation that is alleged to permit innovation in the war against cancer without penalizing physicians for stepping outside established norms. Twill bet you the proposed law is simply bait for passage of a law that ensures no threat will come to the reigning cancer industry.
Yet, in the words that were penned in The Telegraph, it was also admitted that existing law “obliges the doctor to follow the status quo, even though he/she knows it leads only to poor life-quality followed by death.” The report goes on to say “the current law requires the deceased receive only the ‘standard procedure’ – the endless repetition of a failed experiment.”
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Posted July 8, 2013: by Bill Sardi
This investigator’s report about a vitamin remedy to quell the ongoing epidemic of Alzheimer’s memory loss suggests Big Pharma must have known all along that a vitamin B1 (thiamin) deficiency is associated with or is a cause of abnormalities (brain plaque) observed in both laboratory animals and humans.
A shortage of thiamin had been linked to Down’s Syndrome as far back as 1976. Down’s syndrome subjects develop an early form of Alzheimer’s disease.
That pharmaceutical companies must have known all this but failed to report it is consistent with their narrow profit-making mission to produce synthetic molecules and gain their approval as drugs.
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Posted July 7, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The inconceivable is being contemplated – that the intellectual disability among individuals with an inherited developmental disorder (Down’s syndrome) is being partially reversed in animal models of this syndrome with small molecules (example: EGCG from green tea) and may be ready for human application within the next decade, say medical researchers.
Genetic researchers are raising the possibility that certain features of Down’s syndrome, an inherited developmental disorder that affects an estimated 5.8 million people worldwide, can now be reversed or partially corrected by use of small natural molecules. Recent successes in the animal lab provide hope.
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Posted July 5, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Sometimes it is better to present the big overall picture of the need for nutrients with advancing age.
During childhood the demand for minerals is great. Calcium in needed for bone development, iron for red blood cells and copper for connective tissue. During the childbearing years women also require more minerals to donate to the offspring during pregnancy and lactation.
Once childhood growth is achieved in males (~age 18) and when menstruation ceases in females, minerals begin to accumulate. This is known as the over-mineralization theory of aging – that humans rust and calcify with advancing age. Calcium-rich dairy and iron-rich red meat should be consumed in limited amounts with advancing age. Human populations that have water and grasslands to feed cattle (milk cows, steers) consume the most meat and dairy (calcium and iron) and have the highest rates of cancer and heart disease in the world (North America, Ireland, Scandinavia and New Zealand).
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Posted July 1, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Oh mama, the Affordable Care Act is unfolding in all its ugly glory.
Americans are just now learning exactly how this piece of healthcare legislation is going to play out, and the realization of what it has morphed into is quite a disgusting chapter in current American history.
Now before I proceed in telling you what Obamacare has morphed into, I want to go off on a tangent for a moment.
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Posted June 27, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Studies reveal calcium and iron dietary supplements modestly increase the risk for glaucoma, but dietary sources of these two minerals are not implicated. Plant foods include natural controllers of calcium (IP6 phytate) and iron (IP6 phytate, polyphenols, bioflavonoids) which may explain this reported difference between supplemental and dietary sources of these minerals.
Consumption of 800 milligrams/day or more of calcium pills or 18 milligrams or more of supplemental iron increase the odds for glaucoma compared to non-supplement users.
Another abnormal eye condition involving calcification is corneal band keratopathy which is evidenced by a visible horizontal deposition of calcium in a band across the inner central cornea (front window) of the eyes. High blood serum calcium levels are associated with this eye condition. Normalization of blood calcium levels may resolve this problem. Calcium chelators (key-lay-tors) that bind to excess calcium were used decades ago but there are no modern reports of chelation therapy to treat band keratopathy. This condition is associated with endocrine gland disorders such as sarcoidosis or pituitary cancer or kidney failure (kidney filters and excretes calcium).
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